There are roughly 1.1 million debris fragments larger than 0.04 inches and about 40,500 fragments larger than 4 inches in orbit according to the ESA. NASA states that debris can reach speeds of 18,000 ...

Despite this incessant rain of junk battering the atmosphere, the amount of space debris increased over the course of 2024, ...

There are over 40,000 pieces of space debris orbiting Earth that, in the event of a collision, could cause considerable ...

There are over 40,000 pieces of space debris orbiting Earth that, in the event of a collision, could cause significant damage ...

Space missions are all about precision and planning… or at least, they’re supposed to be. But even in the vast, high-tech ...

We've deployed so many satellites into space over the last few decades that we now have a massive orbital junk problem. The ...

The Lyrids are best viewed in the Northern Hemisphere during the dark hours between midnight and dawn. The website Time and ...

The Kenya Space Agency has cautioned the public to stay vigilant amid concerns that debris from a rocket body could fall ...

Xuelong 2, one of the ships from China's 41st Antarctic expedition team, departs on a nearly seven-month mission to ...

Left unchecked, the space around our planet could get so cluttered with debris that we might not be able to use some orbits anymore, according to the latest European Space Agency (ESA) report on ...

At least three old satellites or rocket bodies fall back to Earth every day, a new report reveals. And experts warn that the number of objects returning from space is set to increase, a possible ...